Nights for Friday 24 April 2020

 

7:07 Sonic Tonic

What are you doing right now?

8:05 The Citizen's Handbook

Tonight - episode two of The Citizen's Handbook! It's civics education turned into a game.

8:30 Friday Night Live

In Friday Night Live we go to the Town Hall in Dunedin for ‘Tally Ho’ a concert from February 2015 featuring the Southern Sinfonia celebrating the ‘Dunedin Sound’

9:07 Country Life 

Planting, weeding and making products from essential oil is keeping a couple busy at a lavender farm in lockdown,

Orchids bloom in Horowhenua,

ANZACs remembered in tiny Wimbledon

and The Nineties File features Jack Raharuhi who needs a bigger cabinet to store his agricultural awards.

10:17 After 10

• 10:20 Planning for a very different ANZAC Day

We speak to Debbie Kennedy, the president of the Mosgiel RSA about preparations for tomorrow's ANZAC commemorations.

• 10:40 Working From Home - Loren Taylor

Director Loren Taylor joins us to talk about her latest video project bringing together comedian Rose Matefeo and actress Thomasin McKenzie, opera singer Peni Pati in Paris and internet sensation Gingerbread the cat!!

10:50 A little Classical Music

We hear another wonderful piece of classical music to soothe our soul  picked by pianist and Nights classical music curator, Rachel Church.

11:07 The Mixtape

For the latest series of The Mixtape, RNZ Music invites guests to compile a C60 of local sounds, and talk us through their selections

Suzy Cato first appeared on Aotearoa's television screens in 1990, as the human sidekick to Russell Rooster on TV3's Early Bird Show. Since then, the nation's favourite babysitter has made a career advocating for the families and children. She speaks with Yadana Saw.